Previous pal alert for Dodgers followers. One time LA outfield prospect DJ Peters is one step nearer to returning to Main League Baseball after spending a part of final season in Korea. Peters inked a minor league take care of the Detroit Tigers.
Tigers reporter Evan Woodbery shared the information on Twitter on Wednesday.
The 27-year-old native product out of Glendora, CA, made his MLB debut with the Dodgers in 2021. After battling the staff in an 18 recreation pattern dimension (he went 5-26 for a .192 common), he was designated for task and traded to the Texas Rangers in August of that 12 months.
Issues didn’t get a lot better with Texas as he hit simply .198 over 52 video games and was launched within the offseason to pursue an opportunity with the Lotte Giants in Korea’s KBO league. To danger sounding like a damaged document right here, issues once more didn’t go very effectively for Peters. In 85 video games with the Giants, he hit .228 with a .701 OPS and that was all she wrote overseas.
DJ signed a minor league deal with the Washington Nationals in September and completed out the 2022 season in triple-A.
At one time limit, Peters was a top-15 prospect within the Dodgers system. He earned praise from manager Dave Roberts as a great defender within the outfield and as a participant who put within the work on the area to attempt to be his finest. Sadly, baseball hasn’t been overly form to the previous 2016 fourth spherical draft decide.
Hope stays that Peters can flip it round and pull off his personal profession renaissance very like Trayce Thompson did with LA final 12 months. Better of luck to DJ in Detroit!
